This volume records the making of Chinese artist Zhan Wang’s work “My Personal Universe.” To create this installation, a massive boulder was exploded in mid-air, while being filmed from multiple angles. These films were projected on the walls of a room in which were suspended stainless steel replicas of rock fragments.

In China, naturally formed rocks called jiashanshi are collected in pantheistic reverence of creation and the cosmos. For the past two decades, Chinese artist Zhan Wang has been replicating these forms in stainless steel. Sometimes monumental in scale, the artist's “artificial rocks” explore the nexus of nature, industry and artifice.